Re: unwanted prerequisities

[Ken Smith]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 04:43:21PM -0700, Jonathan Baccash wrote:
> This is related to the help-make thread from July 2001.  I am having
> difficulty getting rid of the implicit rule to make .c files from .w
> files.  This is my makefile:
> 
> .SUFFIXES:
> % :: %,v
> % :: RCS/%,v
> % :: RCS/%
> % :: s.%
> % :: SCCS/s.%
> %.c : %.w %.ch
> 
> foo.c:
> 
> In the output of make -d, I still see:
> 
>   Trying implicit prerequisite `foo.w'.
> 
> I also tried %.c: %.w in addition to the above.  How can I get rid of
> this one?  Is there some way I can just clear everything?  I don't
> want any implicit rules and I want to start from scratch.  Thanks,

This came up again this month.  Please see this thread.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-make/2005-10/msg00003.html

  Ken